Replying to Avatar Jason Ansley | Fractional COO | Leadership Coach

I applied for a project today and it didn’t post a salary; instead it ask what I expected the salary to be…

That is the worst way to handle it becasue it typically shows:

1. The business doesn’t know the value the role they are hiring for is expected to create

2. They want to low ball you

3. They want to disqualify you based upon if your expectation of compensation is “too high” in their eyes.

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None of the above is looking to hire based upon culture and aligned values.

It was disappointing for sure to see that question on the “application”
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Mindaugas 1y ago

Agree and thanks for sharing that. I also had several such positions which I applied and they asked me to fill my expected salary.

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I didn't get back from them and not sure if I asked to much or they something else.

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Ulmer Circular Economy 🇩🇪 1y ago

Probably does not even worth it to deal with such companies if you can manage that. Like in case of job shortage, could be hard to be picky.

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Jason Ansley | Fractional COO | Leadership Coach 1y ago

I always put “To be discussed”.

Why? Because 9/10 scope or what role they want me for changes during interview/negotiations.

And…I don’t make decisions about working with someone or a company based solely on #money

There have been times I’ve worked for less than I’m worth and times I’ve worked for more (not than I’m worth but comparatively for a particular function).

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Mindaugas 1y ago

"To be discussed" is a great way to handle this. Usually, only during the discussion it is possible to understand what you are going to do in your role, because descriptions, especially right now are being created very broad and with the help from ChatGPT. For me, it is hard to trust 100% what it is written there 😁